03/05/2026
Jawad Ahmad is the Vice President of the Pakistan Debate Forum. Thay bring extensive experience across debating administration, adjudication, coaching, and competition at both national and international levels.
In coaching,Jawad serves as Head Coach at Vini's International Debate Academy (India) and as a Coach for the UVAS Debating Society. They are also a debate coach working with VersyTalks, Canada.
As an adjudicator, Jawad has broken at 50+ tournaments. Jawad has served as an Open Octofinal panelist at Thailand AWSDC 2025 and Oxford WSDC 2025, and as an Invited Judge for Chinese Regionals and Nationals. Their judging record includes 15 Open Grand Final panels at events such as Australian National University Spring, Intertext Pre-ABP, Shahjiwana, Sun Yat-Sen Debate Open, and Zimbabwe WSDC, alongside 17 Novice Final panels at tournaments including Hart House Toronto Winter Open, Malaysia Online Debate Open, Seattle IV(chair), Paris WSDC 5.0 and 6.0(chair), Vietnam Junior Debating Championship, and LUMS Asians 2025. They have additionally served on 10 Semifinal panels at events such as Warwick Open, AODC, Thistle Cup Scotland Pre-WSDC, and LUMS Asians 2024, and on 4 Quarterfinal panels, including Columbia WSDC 2025, AODC Junior 2025 etc. They have also judged the Octofinal of Stand PF Invitational 2026.
As a speaker, Jawad has achieved notable competitive success. They were Open Grand Finalist at Mahasangram Asia Pre-WUDC 2025, Open Champion and Top-10 Open Best Speaker, at UW BPDC 2024, an Open Semifinalist at UET 2024, AIMC 2024, and UMT 2024, and an Open Semifinalist, second Open breaking at Dameer 2024. They were also the Novice Champion at KCDC 2024.
In leadership roles, Jawad has served as Chief Adjudicator at 12 tournaments, including Vancouver Pre-WSDC, Serious International WSDC Intertext Schools BP, LSE 2026, GIKI Open, Pak Debate Forum Invitational 2.0, AIMC, FAST, SPS, LGS Izmir, and SMDC.
They have extensive equity experience as a 30+time Equity Officer, with roles at events such as Penn WSDC 2026, Malaysia International WSDC 2026, Zimbabwe International WSDC 2026, New Nations Pre-WSDC 2026, Vocara Winter WSDC 2025, Norwich Online Pre EUDC 2026